North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the Chinese city of Dalian to meet President Xi Jinping. The two discuss bilateral issues, with Mr Xi telling Mr Kim of his support of talks between North Korea and the United States.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd takes to popular Chinese social media site Weibo to take aim at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's "paranoid and all over the place" policies towards Beijing, as well as muse about various other China-related issues.

China's deployment of missiles to the disputed Spratly Islands shows that Beijing is serious about exerting long-term domination over the South China Sea, and has no intention of keeping its promise not to militarise the contested area.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warns Beijing against militarising the South China Sea following reports that China has installed missile systems in the hotly disputed Spratly Islands for the first time.

China's "Helmsman" President Xi Jinping wants the 1.4 billion people he leads to enthusiastically embrace the teachings of German philosopher Karl Marx, as part of a broader revival of the Communist Party.

Asian politics lecturer at The University of Melbourne Pradeep Taneja says that it is hoped that the meeting between India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China's President Xi Jinping will defuse tensions between the two nuclear powers, following in the footsteps of the Korean summit.

The exiled leader of an ethnic minority in China is set to go on a hunger strike to protest against Beijing's treatment of the Uighur people. Rebiya Kadeer says the Chinese Government is attempting to "brainwash" the Uighur people with nationalist propaganda in "Nazi-style concentration camps".

Beverley O'Connor speaks to leading campaigner for the rights of China's Uighur Muslim minority, Rebiya Kadeer, and political and international editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hartcher, who met Ms Kadeer on a recent visit to Australia.

A new generation of prospective Chinese diplomats is being encouraged to see China as a force for good, as opposed to "untrustworthy" Japan and "interfering" US, while maintaining "correct" thought above all else, writes Merriden Varrall.